Questions from new user

[mwangle]

1. If I start a season in 1970 do all transactions and whatever happened during season carry over?

2. Can a player like Barry Bonds have a career ending injury?

3. How is a players performance influenced from one season to next?

4. Do farm teams get replenished from year to year with RL players? I don't want to use fictitious players other than to fill lineups for farm games.

5. What happens when game gets updated? Do the RL stats influence anything if your are moving from 2008 to 2009?

[CecilCooper]

I am somewhat new to the latest version of OOTP also, but this is what I have found and know (I started a 1982 league with ootp9)

Look at this page... OOTP Baseball Manual - Adding Historical Leagues


And this one....
OOTP Baseball Manual - Options Page

That will cover most of your questions. The game can be customized pretty much anyway you want. The two links above will show you where and how they can be customized (such as allowing ghost players or filling with fictional but blocking them from reaching the majors).

1. Once you start a league you can do whatever you want. You can control one team and have the AI control the others and create a new history. Or you can be the commissioner and block the AI from making roster moves and then you can make the changes as they happened. The Computer will not do the real life changes automatically.
2. Yes, just like above, things that happen once you start the game are independent of what happened in real life. In commissioner mode you can go into the player editor and change the status from injured to normal.
3. In the links above, you can see how to set the ratings to your liking. Whether it is based on real life or not (option on the 2nd link that says "Recalc ratings each year based on real life")
4. There is a draft, and again you can customize whether the draft happens or whether people end up automatically in the system that they started in.
5. When the game goes past 2008 you are going to into fictional world. Although by the time you get there and if 2009 has started there will most likely be a roster update in the MODS section that someone has come up with.

[mwangle]

Thanks for answers. Here are a couple more questions.

1. If a player is performing badly in the majors could sending him to minors help him get better?

2. Is it better to base players on previous 3 season's or their fill career from where I take over?

3. The stars to the right of player on the roster page. Do those ever change? Will his potential ever change or is that based on what he did in RL and locked in? Thanks Mark

[Kelric]

1) Maybe. If he's overmatched in the bigs, sometimes sending him back to Triple-A will save him from regressing. Sometimes it doesn't help at all.

2) You mean in predicting future performance? I'd say weight their previous seasons more than their career, but take that into consideration as well.

3) If you're playing historical and don't have recalc on, yeah, they'll change. Potentials will change. Ratings will change.